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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PERLEY LAFLIN, OF WVARREN, ASSIGNOR TO THEODORE O. BATES, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTENING FOR WEARING-APPAREL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 293,041, dated February 5, 1884.

' Application filed April 14,1883. (X0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, PERLEY LAFLIN, of Warren, county of Worcester, State of Massachuselts, have invented an Improvement in Fastenings for Tearing-Apparel, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters onthe drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a fastening for corsets, gloves, &c.; and it consists, essentially, in a slotted plate, substantially as hereinafter described, which is so shaped as to be forced or sprung aside as the headed fastening-stud is made to traverse from one to the other end of the slot of the fastening-plate. The slot may have, as an auxiliary stud-retainer, a transverse rib struck or bent up from the body of the plate.

, Figure 1 represents my improved fastening device applied to two clasps or steels such as used at the front of a corset; Fig. 2, an end view of Fig. 1, looking at it in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a modification in top view; Fig. 4, an end view of Fig. 3, looking at it in the direction of the arrow in the said figure.

Let a I) represent two ordinary steels of a corset or the edge of the material forming the slitted wrist of a glove. The fastening-plate a, suitably riveted orattached to the part a, has an elongated eye, (Z, of sufficient size at one end for the passage of the head 6 of the headed fastening stud or post 6, attached to the part b. The said elongated eye d is contracted in 'width near the middle of its length, and made at its most contracted part narrower than the diameter of the shank e of the stud or post e, so that the shank of the said stud or post, in traveling from one to the other end of the said slot, acts against the arms or ribs f f and causes one or both to spring sufficiently to permit the passage of the shank e to the end, 2, of the slot, theposition it will occupy when the plate and stud are engaged, the head of the stud being of greater diameter than the The arms or ribs ff are produced by cutting the plate 0 through to form the eye (1, and 'by removing the metal at the points 3 3.

To yet further insure'the retention of the stud in the outer end of the slot (2, the arms or ribs and the plate 0 are bent or raised, as

shown best in Fig. 2, by striking the plate a transversely to the slot, the rib so made on the upper side of the plate, when moved over the edge of b and passed beyond the head 6. acting against the further side of the head and serving as a stop to restrain to a considerable degree the movement of the plate 0 in the direction necessary to place the head at the large or inner end of the eye cl, the only position which the stud and head can occupy when the plate is to be disengaged from the stud and head.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the plate 0 is not provided with the transverse rib, as shown in Figs. 1

and 2, and the retention of the stud e and head 6 at the outer end of slot (1 is due to the contraction of the slot (Z and the spring-arms ff. The plate 0 may be affixed to the member it fastens by rivets or prongs or other suitable fastenings.

The fastening shown and described may be cheaply made, and is very strong and durable.

I claim- 1. The plate 0, provided with. the slot d. contracted near the middle of its length, and wholly surrounded by the metal of the plate, and having the spring-arms f f and cut-away portions 3 3 between said arms'and the edges of the plate, substantially as shown and described.

2. A fastening device for wearing-apparel, comprising a headed stud and the single plate 0, having the slot (1, contracted between its ends, and wholly surrounded by and contained I within the metal of the plate, and provided between its ends with a stop bent or struck up from the body of the plate, to arrest the accidental escape of the headed stud from the said slot, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

hi PERLEY LAF LIN. mark. Vitnesses:

J. A. ORDWAY, H. H. FAIRBANKS. 

